Worn #onthisday in 1984 by members of the North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club for the annual "City to Surf" fun run in Sydney, Australia. They wear vintage bathing suits and swim caps and carry a flag and lifesaving reel, invented in 1906 to reel in struggling swimmers. #OTD 📷️ Google Arts and Culture

Worn #onthisday in 1937 at the #wedding of Clarence Schram and Phyllis Cassford on the steamship The Maid of the Mist near Niagara Falls, NY. Beneath their oilskins and spray hoods, the group wore "the customary bridal attire for a morning wedding," per the Buffalo News. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1966 by Princess Anne, arriving in Kingston, Jamaica, where she would celebrate her 16th birthday with her family. "Anne is a thoroughly fashion-conscious teen-ager and her wardrobe includes cool shift dresses in favorite shades of pink, green and pale blue," UPI reported. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1948 by Lt. Franz Hegner of Switzerland in the modern pentathlon at the Olympics in London. The games had been delayed twice due to World War II; many competitors wore military uniforms and the pentathletes stayed at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1798 by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile: a bicorne hat and rear admiral's undress coat, the right sleeve attached to the lapel by a black silk loop. In his 1799 portrait by Leonardo Guzzardi, he wears a full-dress coat. #OTD 📷️ National Maritime Museum, Norfolk Museums

Worn #onthisday in 1924 by orphans at the Founding Hospital in London, being inspected by the Duke of Connaught, a vice president of the charity. William Hogarth, an early patron, designed the uniforms: brown, with white bonnets and pinafores, resembling those worn by servants. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1950 by the seamstresses of the house of Christian Dior, staging a mock a fashion show in front of the maison at 30 Avenue Montaigne in Paris, following the presentation of Dior's new collection. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1972 by English glam rock band Roxy Music, at the Crystal Palace Garden Party concert in London. "We have plenty of ideas for stage costumes," singer Bryan Ferry told the Evening Sentinel, decrying "the Levi-clad do-your-own-thing of the past couple of years." OTD @gettyimages.com

Hand-made costumes worn #onthisday in 1981 by crowds gathering at Buckingham Palace in London on the day before the highly anticipated #royal #wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. #OTD @gettyimages.com 📷️ London Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1908 by Elaine Wakefield for her #wedding to Claude L.T. Phillips at St George's, Hanover Square, in London. The silk satin gown trimmed with artificial orange blossoms was made by Mme. Meynier of Lille, France, recommended by the the wife of the American Consul. #OTD 📷️ V&A Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1951 by British and Argentine rivals for the Festival Cup at London's Roehampton Polo Ground. Instead of a polo shirt and jodphurs, the Argentinian wears gaucho-inspired dress: a flat, wide-brimmed sombrero, coin-studded leather belt, and short, loose pants. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Uniforms worn #onthisday in 1919 by members of the Women's Police Force to a garden party honoring war workers at Buckingham Palace in London. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1908 by the British men's swim team and their coach for the first Olympic 4x200m freestyle relay in London. They won the gold medal and set an inaugural world record of 10:55.6. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Great Britain won a third gold in the event with a time of 7:05.11. #OTD

Full Dress uniform of a colonel of the Gordon Highlanders worn #onthisday in 1913 by Gen. Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas: a bearskin hat, a military jacket, belt, sword, plaid, kilt and sporran. He holds white gloves and wears knee-high socks with flashes and formal court shoes. @vamuseum

Pierre Balmain gown of silk damask woven with fleurs-de-lis and lace mantilla worn #onthisday in 1964 by Princess Claudia--daughter of the Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne--at her #wedding to Duke Amadeo d'Aosta of Italy (in Italian naval uniform) in Sao Pedro de Sinta, Portugal. #OTD

Costume worn #onthisday in 1936 by William Olding--the tallest man in England at 7' 6 1/2"--to play the part of the Archangel Michael in the Pageant of Tudor Days at the Hurlingham Club in London, a charity performance to raise money for the Waifs and Strays Society. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1969 by astronauts Charles M. Duke Jr., James A. Lovell Jr., and Fred W. Haise Jr. at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, keeping tabs on Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins during their lunar landing mission. #OTD 📷️ NASA

Full dress civil uniform worn #onthisday in 1912 by Canadian Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden and his cabinet ministers, with their wives, to a State Ball at Buckingham Palace in London. In his memoirs, Borden remembered the ball as "was most brilliant in every way." #OTD 📷️ V&A Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1894 by Oliver Cory, 23 months old, photographed in Sacramento, CA. His "Fauntleroy suit"--a cutaway jacket and matching knee breeches worn with a puffy shirt with a ruffled collar--was inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy." #OTD 📷️ CSU Chico

Admiral's uniform worn #onthisday in 1788 by Prince Charles, Duke of Södermanland, the future King Charles XIII, when he commanded the Swedish fleet in the naval Battle of Hogland, fought against Russia in the Gulf of Finland. Both sides claimed victory. #OTD 📷️ Livrustkammaren, Nationalmuseum

Eagle-print dress worn #onthisday in 1976 by First Lady Betty Ford, preparing to host a State Dinner for German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. Luis Estevez designed the dress and its matching navy cape, lined in the eagle-print fabric. #OTD 📷 NARA

Worn #onthisday in 1952 by Princess Margaret at the #wedding of her cousin, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, to ex-showgirl Angela Dowding at St. Margaret's Church in London. In mourning for her late father, she'd worn the same pearl-gray lace dress to Royal Ascot a month earlier. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 2009 by the Nouba, the military band of the 1st Regiment of Tirailleurs, at the #BastilleDay ceremonies in Strasbourg, France. Their uniform references the Zouaves, light infantry units recruited from Colonial Algeria's Arab and Berber communities in the 1800s. #OTD 📷 Wikimedia

Worn #onthisday in 1985 by Freddie Mercury of Queen, backstage at the landmark Live Aid charity concert at Wembley Stadium in London. His yellow cotton vest was printed in blue with a cowboy on a bucking horse. #OTD 📷 Sothebys

Worn #onthisday in 1993 by Tina Turner to perform the theme song from 1985's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY. The chainmail dress--possibly by her frequent collaborator Azzedine Alaia--evoked a Norma Moriceau costume she'd worn in the film. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 2015 by writer Lindy West at her #wedding to Aham Oluo in Seattle, WA. "My friend, artist and designer Mark Mitchell, and I conceived of the most beautiful dress we could imagine," she recalled, "a strapless, skin-tight mermaid gown exploding with silk flowers." #OTD 📷️ Wikimedia

Worn #onthisday in 1946 by Mrs. Gertrude Landon, 39, with a diamond ring and pink bra and underpants, when she was strangled and buried in a gravel pit in Palos Verdes, CA. Police released this photo of her shoes and shell necklace in hopes of identifying her body. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 2016 by fashion designer Christian Siriano and musician Brad Walsh at their #wedding in Danbury, CT. David Hart made the couple's custom black suits. The 12 attendants wore wedding gowns by Siriano; the guests also wore white. The pair separated in 2018 and divorced in 2021. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1933 by Australian tennis player Jack Crawford when he won the men's final at The Championships in Wimbledon, UK. Though male competitors first played in shorts that year, flannel trousers were still the norm. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1976 by Queen Elizabeth II at the Reflecting Pool on a Bicentennial visit to Washington, D.C. "Despite the heat, the Queen looked cool in a fitted coatdress of aquamarine silk and a matching puffy beret topped with a pompom," the @nytimes.com reported. #OTD 📷️ NPS, @gettyImages.com